National Parks’ get-out-of-jail-free card in High Court

The High Court will consider this week whether the Commonwealth can rely on “crown immunity” to avoid criminal penalties for damaging sacred sites in the Northern Territory. A spectacular sacred site at Gunlom Falls, which featured in Crocodile Dundee and is also a popular tourist destination within Kakadu National Park, was damaged by works undertaken […]

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